As the name suggests, MySQL SOUNDS LIKE operator will search the similar sound values from a table. Its syntax is ‘Expression1 SOUNDS LIKE Expression2’ where, both Expression1 and Expression2 will be compared based on their English pronunciation of sound.
Example
Following is an example from ‘student_info’ table which will match the two expressions based on the pronunciation of sound −
mysql> Select * from student_info where name sounds like 'grov'; +------+--------+---------+------------+ | id | Name | Address | Subject | +------+--------+---------+------------+ | 105 | Gaurav | Jaipur | Literature | +------+--------+---------+------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> Select * from student_info where name sounds like 'rmn'; +------+-------+---------+-----------+ | id | Name | Address | Subject | +------+-------+---------+-----------+ | 125 | Raman | Shimla | Computers | +------+-------+---------+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)